cast_pv_data: Cast PatentsView data
In crew102/patentsview: An R Client to the PatentsView API

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

This will cast the data fields returned by search_pv so that they have their most appropriate data types (e.g., date, numeric, etc.).

1	cast_pv_data(data)

data

The data returned by search_pv. This is the first element of the three-element result object you got back from search_pv. It should be a list of length 1, with one data frame inside it. See examples.

The same type of object that you passed into cast_pv_data.

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fields <- c("patent_date", "patent_title", "patent_year")
res <- search_pv(query = "{\"patent_number\":\"5116621\"}", fields = fields)
cast_pv_data(data = res$data)